Chapter 230 kicks off the domestic science fiction movie!
Chapter 227: Kick off the domestic science fiction movie!
With the arrival of Tomb Sweeping Day, the "Ready Player One" movie has finally landed in major theaters amidst the expectations of netizens.
Fortunately, China is only less than a week later than abroad, and the gun version movies that have been circulated are basically all in standard definition quality, which does not have a big impact on the domestic movie box office. After all, if the definition of this kind of special effects masterpiece is not enough, it will bring
The audience is only left with visual pollution, and it definitely cannot be called a visual shock.
"Ready Player One", which has been wildly promoted by major media recently, immediately replaced movies such as "Black Panther", "Wreck-It Ralph 2" and "A Quiet Place" as soon as it was released and became the most popular movie among movie fans.
Just like "Black Panther", which was released in March, with the golden name of Marvel, the popularity before its release was no less than that of "Ready Player One".
But now, there is basically very little news about the "Black Panther" movie on the Internet, and netizens are paying less and less attention. When "Ready Player One" is currently promoting and building momentum, basically no one cares about it.
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In fact, this is not difficult to understand. After all, these movies have been released for almost half a month at the latest. Audiences who are interested in American comics and superhero themes can be said to have watched the movies, unless there is some news recently exposed to build momentum for these movies.
Otherwise, the box office of subsequent movies will basically not fluctuate much.
In the end, with advance pre-sale, "Ready Player One" received a box office of RMB 30 million at the zero-point screening, ranking second in this year's zero-point box office.
The first one is "I'm Not the God of Medicine" which was released on New Year's Day.
Originally, the box office of Spring Festival movies such as "Tang Detective 2" and "Kung Fu Yoga" were not low, but there was no way. Who allowed the Spring Festival Gala program to be broadcast on New Year's Eve? If you want to release it on the first day of the new year, you just have to
Can give up the box office for zero o'clock shows.
Even though "Ready Player One" had a box office pre-sale of 500 million, the box office of "Ready Player One" still failed to surpass "I'm Not a Medicine God" at zero-point screenings, which actually surprised the film industry.
However, for netizens, this is expected.
Comparing the box office with "I'm Not the God of Medicine"?
Unless the star of "Ready Player One" is Lin Yuan, judging from the cast, the movie "Ready Player One" will not be attractive at all to most domestic audiences.
Among the four audience groups of men, women, old and young, "Ready Player One" can only account for a quarter at most.
However, compared with movies such as "A Quiet Place" and "Wreck-It Ralph 2" that were released at the same time, the performance of "Ready Player One" can be said to be far behind these movies.
Many self-media have begun to use the zero-ticket box office of "Ready Player One" as a gimmick, saying that this is the biggest dark horse in the domestic film market this year, and the box office performance is expected to surpass "Tang Detective 2" and other Spring Festival movies, and even use the current box office
Compare it to the best-performing imported film "Black Panther".
In the early morning of Saturday, April 6, the first-day box office results for "Ready Player One" were finally released.
"Ready Player One" grossed 230 million on its first day!
Compared with the first-day box office of Marvel's "Black Panther" movie released in March, it was a full 100 million higher!
It’s another round of carnival time for the major media. Every time like this, the major media are the happiest. They don’t need to spend time looking for reporting materials. They can just make a fuss about the box office data.
A lot of traffic.
The box office results are here, and most media have begun to praise "Ready Player One" and director Spielberg.
It's only the first day of release, and "Ready Player One" has already become the best imported film this year in the media's mouth.
As for the Marvel movie that was highly anticipated by movie fans around the world in May, it was put aside as if forgotten by these media.
The already released Marvel movie "Black Panther" has naturally become the target of comparison by the media. When comparing the cast and box office results, the result is naturally a complete failure.
"Ready Player One", which set a first-day box office record for imported films, was still strong on the second day. Not only did it exceed the 400 million box office mark, but it was only one step away from the first-week box office record of 500 million.
You must know that the box office performance of special effects masterpieces with no plot like this is usually steadily decreasing. Because there is no attractive plot, the audience naturally loses interest in watching it for the second time. However,
The box office of "Ready Player One" has been steadily rising.
The reason why this happened is because the audience saw surprises in the movie other than the trailer.
Domestic audiences are actually quite complicated about the movie "Ready Player One". What attracted the audience to the theater was the large number of Easter eggs in "Ready Player One", but at the same time, what disappointed the audience was also the many Easter eggs in the movie.
From the trailer, domestic audiences did not see any Easter eggs related to Chinese elements.
This has led many viewers to believe that the movie "Ready Player One" is just trying to make money from domestic audiences, but is unwilling to spend time catering to the tastes of domestic audiences. Even Lin Yuan was criticized by many netizens for this incident, thinking that
If he, a domestic movie king, plays such a small role, his price will drop.
But after the movie was released, when the audience walked into the cinema and saw Lin Yuan using props on the big screen to summon the heroic spirits of the generals of the Three Kingdoms of China, leading thousands of iron hooves to fight against L0L Company, they were directly shocked by the grand scene in front of them.
Although this is an Easter egg from the game "Dynasty Warriors", when Chinese generals such as Guan Yu and Lu Bu appeared on the screen, domestic audiences could only use the word "shock" to describe their feelings at this moment.
Director Spielberg obviously adopted Lin Yuan's suggestion. Even though it only lasted less than a minute, domestic netizens felt the sincerity of the crew.
If the movie is all about the plot in the trailer, the results of "Ready Player One" will obviously not reach the heights it is now.
However, judging from the current momentum, everyone is extremely sure and has no doubt whether "Ready Player One" can break the current record set by "Black Panther".
In less than a week, "Ready Player One" successfully took the top spot as the highest-grossing movie in the same period, edging out "Black Panther"'s 1.1 billion box office.
"The best imported film of the year was released in April. Director Spielberg and director Lin Yuan worked together to win the box office championship in April!"
"The first Hollywood movie by Lin Yuan, the youngest double actor in China, has a box office of over 1.2 billion within one week of release!"
"The annual box office record for imported films has been broken. "Ready Player One" has surpassed "Black Panther" in all aspects. Marvel movies have tasted defeat for the first time!"
""Ready Player One" is a hit at the box office, and it's hard to get a ticket in major cities during prime time!"
The major media reports are wildly touting it, but they are just applying the same words they used to praise the "Black Panther" movie to "Ready Player One". It is said that being a reporter is quite simple sometimes. If you use a press release several times, it is estimated that
You can still use it when "Avengers 3" is released next month.
On the other side, Lin Yuan has been writing the script for the unit drama "My Motherland and Me" at home these days.
Anyway, the crew of "Ready Player One" didn't plan to come to China for a road show. Lin Yuan's promotion of the movie was nothing more than forwarding a post on Weibo, which didn't take him much time.
Sometimes when I get bored at home, I go to hang out underneath the apartment, and in the evening I go to Song Zuer's house next door to have food. For more than half a month, the two of them feed each other.
Lin Yuan also left a role for Song Zuer. He just appeared in the movie. If this role was released outside, I don’t know how many first-line stars would be vying to star in it. After all, this is the main theme of a joint production by major film companies.
It’s not easy to be included in the cast list of movies.
As for this kind of backdoor behavior, even if it means stuffing a vase into the crew, as long as it does not delay the filming of the movie, basically no one will say anything. Just like when Feng Xiaogang became the director of the Spring Festival Gala and arranged for many artists under Huayi Brothers to
After entering the Spring Festival Gala, this seemed to have almost become a customary thing in the circle.
After writing the script, Lin Yuan printed the script into three copies, keeping one for himself, giving one to Chief Director Chen Kaige for review, and one to show to Xu Zheng and Ning Hao for reference.
When printing the script, Song Zuer asked with some worry: "Do you really want to film this story?"
Lin Yuan sat back in his chair and nodded: "What else? How about you let me take photos of air force escorts? I'm not good at that kind of subject."
Song Zuer opened his mouth but stopped talking.
"My Motherland and Me" has a total of seven unit dramas, six of which are about how powerful the motherland is now. Only Lin Yuan wants to film the lives of ordinary people. If this unit drama is messed up, the consequences will be serious.
"What are you afraid of? It's still determined whether the script has been passed or not. Even if the filming is not ideal by then, at worst, I can concentrate on being my actor. Anyway, I'm not planning to transform into a director." Lin Yuan knew what she was worried about and looked directly at her.
Zhu Songzuer said with relief.
Seeing that Lin Yuan had said this, Song Zuer didn't say much. Anyway, all she could do was support Lin Yuan's choice unconditionally.
At the end of April, the box office of "Ready Player One" has basically been determined. It is currently 1.9 billion. Even if it is released until the May Day holiday, it will only be around 2 billion at most.
Compared with Hollywood blockbusters such as "Black Panther", "A Quiet Place" and "Wreck-It Ralph", the box office of "Ready Player One" is much higher than the sum of these movies. It can be said that it has firmly occupied the domestic box office in April.
Champion's throne.
However, the arrival of the May Day period still caused a big impact.
In particular, the premiere of "Avengers 3" took in 387 million at the box office, which directly caused major media to change their direction and began to apply the words that previously praised "Ready Player One" to "Avengers 3".
You can’t blame the media. No one thought that “Avengers: Endgame” would be so influential. You must know that when “Avengers: Endgame” was released, the box office on the first day was less than 200 million. There was no way it could compete with “The Number One”.
Compared with the first-day box office performance of "The Player", however, the first-day box office of "Avengers 3" has directly doubled!
No one knows the final box office results yet.
However, after the explosive box office results of "Ready Player One" and "Avengers: Endgame", many domestic film studios suddenly turned their attention to science fiction movies.
In the past, domestic science fiction movies have been criticized by the audience, but there are only two points. One is that the special effects are too poor, and the second is that the plot is too ordinary, not as wild as foreign science fiction movies.
Now that the domestic film market is so huge, major film studios can hire Hollywood special effects teams to produce domestic science fiction films.
No film company is willing to struggle with money. The box office results of previous films such as "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Operation Red Sea" have proved that there is a market for theme movies, so major film companies have joined forces to produce a "Me and Me"
"Motherland", science fiction movies are now very popular among audiences, and major film studios have turned their attention to science fiction movies.
Just when film companies such as Huayi Brothers, Bona Pictures, and Enlight Media began to prepare sci-fi movies, China Film Group did not hesitate to launch a movie that had already been planned-"The Wandering Earth"!
As early as 2012, China Film Co., Ltd. purchased the copyright of Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "The Wandering Earth". In 2014, China Film Co., Ltd. decided to start the filming of the "Wandering Earth" movie. In 2015, Guo Fan was confirmed as the film's director.
The director has been looking for partners from 2017 to now.
Originally, China Film Group planned to start filming the movie "The Wandering Earth" after raising more investment.
However, the success of commercial science fiction films such as "Ready Player One" and "Avengers 3" has directly aroused the interest of China Film Group Corporation. If China Film Group does not produce "The Wandering Earth" and waits until science fiction films produced by other film companies are released,
China Film and Television cannot be the first to take advantage of the situation.
I'm afraid filmmakers in the industry never thought that these two imported commercial science fiction films, "Ready Player One" and "Avengers 3", would directly set off a craze for their domestic science fiction films!